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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Richmond mourns the loss of a great guitar Maestro

This article appeared in yesterday's Richmond Times Dispatch - it's a tribute to Carlos Pozzi, who taught classical guitar in Richmond public schools for 30 years (he lived a full life despite having to undergo 3 kidney transplants in his lifetime).

He was my first and favorite guitar teacher and a mentor to me in many ways and I will miss him alot. Like many of his students, music has been central in my life ever since I began taking lessons from him.

He inspired so many young people over the years so the mark he left on this world cannot be measured.

The memorial service for Carlos Pozzi was held last Sunday at the Richmond Friends Meeting House and his family, friends, and colleagues all gathered to remember him.

Mr. Pozzi's spirit and legacy will live on through the many students he taught - some who have gone on to become guitar teachers themselves, and others who have applied the wisdom he shared in other ways.

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

MUSIC USED IN SOME OF THIS YEAR'S BIGGEST FASHION SHOWS

I'll be DJing for the TEEN STYLIN' event at the VMFA next month so I put this blog post together for the fashion show participants to give them a sample of the type of musical selections the big fashion designers are choosing these days. (Actually, the music I'll be playing will be mostly chosen by the designers themselves. So this blog post is meant to help the designers start thinking about what sort of music they want to use in their show. )

NOTE: most of the links below are from 2012.... still cool stuff, but a year old now... so here's a few links to this year's music runway selections:

And here’s a web page of a professional music service that apparently provides a lot of music mixes for various fashion shows.You can click through to see the sort of
variety of sounds they use for different fashion styles.

and here's a blog entry by a creative director / show stylist on "how to pick music for your fashion show"

NOTE: The list of brands and designers, as well as many of the song titles, came from this wonderful article in VOGUE from August - however, in that article, none of the actual video was included - so you couldnt see how the music and the movement of the models interacted. Also, the Vogue article is completely dependent on the reader having Spotify installed (not a bad program at all actually), and some songs played during the show were not listed in their article at all. So I did a quite a bit of extra research (basically, surfing around through the comments in the videos) to "expand" the wonderful article Vogue published last August.